Candidates

David Croft

GRN

Colin Hebb

LIB

George Jordan

PC

Marilyn More

NDP

Current MLA: Marilyn More (NDP)

District profile: This riding was renamed in 2003. It includes 91 per cent of the former Dartmouth South (losing the area north of Lake Banook and Hawthorne Street to Dartmouth North) and a corner of Cole Harbour-Eastern Passage.

It's a mixed riding that includes the Alderney Landing theatre, library and ferry downtown, as well as residential areas such as Woodside, Southdale and Portland Estates.

Several new condominium and multi-unit housing developments earlier in the decade have helped to revitalize the area.

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2006 results

Candidate

Party

Vote count

Vote share

Elected

Marilyn More

NDP

4,493

48.05%

X

Tim Olive

PC

3,041

32.52%

Brian Hiltz

LIB

1,509

16.14%

Danny Melvin

GRN

308

3.29%

Voter turnout: 59.55 per cent in 2006

Political history

This riding, which was represented by former premier John Savage, has switched back and forth between all three parties since 1970. The results have often been close.

The NDP, however, has had the upper hand in three of the last four elections.

2006:

New Democrat Marilyn More won re-election by more than 1,400 votes over PC Tim Olive.

2003:

More received 43 per cent of the vote to defeat Olive by 1,031 votes. Liberal Colin A. MacEachern came in third.